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# SAP Materials Management Functional Lead

- **Company:** RGP
- **Location:** Atlanta, GA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $176,800.0 - $187,200.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Spreadsheets, Data Governance, SAP ERP, SAP Materials Management, SAP R/3, Systems Integration, Sap Fiori, SAP S/4HANA
- **Published:** August 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/B4A5CBAF224545BEA4AE6E6B50CB784E/job/

## About the Role

* 10 or more years of SAP PP functional consulting experience.
 * Deep experience in discrete and complex manufacturing environments.
 * Strong hands-on SAP PP configuration capability.
 * Material Requirements Planning and planning-parameter expertise.
 * Bills of material, routings, work centers and production versions.
 * Production-order lifecycle, confirmations, goods issues, goods receipts and settlement.
 * Capacity planning, scheduling and material-availability checking.
 * Make-to-stock, make-to-order and engineer-to-order experience.
 * Strong PP integration with MM and manufacturing inventory processes.
 * Understanding of product costing, WIP, production variances and settlement integration with FICO.
 * Experience working with QM, PM, Project Systems, warehouse processes or MES integrations.
 * Strong manufacturing master-data and root-cause-analysis skills.
 * Proven experience in SAP stabilization, remediation or MSP transition.
 * Ability to engage directly with production planners and plant users.
 * Ability to distinguish process, configuration, data, custom-code and integration issues.
 * Preferred experience:
 * SAP S/4HANA Production Planning.
 * MRP Live.
 * Embedded PP/DS or advanced planning and scheduling.
 * Project Systems integration.
 * Variant configuration or engineer-to-order manufacturing.
 * Regulated, highly traceable or quality-intensive manufacturing.
 * Global template, plant rollout or multi-instance SAP experience.
 * SAP Fiori applications for manufacturing.
 * Integration with MES, shop-floor, engineering or quality systems.
 * An inspirational place for you to do your best work, be engaged in meaningful ways, and continually develop the skills, competencies and qualities that set our team apart.

## Description

* Assume ownership of the SAP PP incident, enhancement, and process-improvement backlog.
 * Assess the current performance of MRP, production scheduling and manufacturing execution.
 * Review planning strategies, lot-sizing procedures, procurement types, safety stock and other MRP parameters.
 * Analyze bills of material, routings, work centers and production versions.
 * Improve production-order creation, release, confirmation, goods movement, completion and settlement processes.
 * Identify causes of material shortages, schedule instability, capacity constraints and planning exceptions.
 * Assess manual planner workarounds and spreadsheet-based processes.
 * Improve integration among PP, MM, QM, FICO, warehouse functions, engineering and plant systems.
 * Support make-to-stock, make-to-order, engineer-to-order or project-related production scenarios as applicable.
 * Address rework, scrap, yield, production variance and exception-management processes.
 * Review manufacturing master-data governance and ownership.
 * Lead functional design, configuration, testing, deployment and post-production validation.
 * Partner directly with production planners, plant leadership, manufacturing, engineering and finance.
 * Support MSP knowledge transfer and establish sustainable functional ownership.
 * Identify practical process improvements without destabilizing current production.


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